On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 04:55:24PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Monday 05 January 2009 16:02:27 Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > Here is a long overdue update of audio/sox. > > > > There were a number of choices to make and some people are bound to > > disagree with some of them. Briefly: > > * I have dropped the snprintf() patches after failing to get them > > accepted upstream. > > * Don't modularize the format converters. > > * Drop flavors and just add most external libraries sox supports. > > I've drawn the line somewhat arbitrarily at codec collections > > like ffmpeg that are badly integrated into sox. > > > > This update does not include a sndio backend. I would like to > > provide one, but I'd prefer that to go in separately, plus I don't > > want to delay the update any longer. > > Personally I think that libao would be a better option over the Sun backend > for the short term until a sndio backend is added to SOX, which buys you > sndio support for now. It is a fairly small library with no external > dependencies. With the other dependencies, which I think are fine and a good > balance, I don't see this as adding much and it goes away when the sndio > backend is added. > > I haven't tested what you have posted here yet but looking it over it looks > good otherwise.
personally, I don't think there any point in an audio backend for sox. aucat can read from stdin and sox can output to stdout. -- [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
